Larry Taylor (Canned Heat) RIP*

I heard Larry Taylor of Canned Heat passed today...

 

Sad news. He was a great talent. RIP.

 

Sure hope this is false, Canned Heat booked at South Lake Tahoe next month.

 

Larry Taylor - Wikipedia

 

It's a really common name so am hoping maybe not. He's outlived his drummer brother Mel by quite a bit.

 

Also Played with Mr. Waits for many years.

RIP

 

Not seeing anything on Twitter or on Canned Heat's Facebook page...

 

RIP

 

A distinctive and talented bassist. Hope this report turns out to be inaccurate.

As well as Canned Heat, played with lots of other people - including several albums by Tom Waits and The Monkees. Now that's some range.

Was just marveling earlier today at this unusual duet with brilliant but star-crossed Alan Wilson, whom he outlived by 50 years...

 

Aw, crap - he played on so much early Monkees stuff as he was Boyce & Hart's main bass player. He's all over those first two albums and then some. R.I.P.

 

He was also with John Mayall's Bluesbreakers in the '70s and he played with Tom Waits for several years in the '80s.

 

If this is true then there is only 1 original member of Canned Heat left, which would be the drummer. I looked up him on Wiki and it does not mention that he died, so maybe it's someone else? Their usually pretty quick about these things

 

I hope it’s not true. Awesome bassist and my favorite part of Canned Heat’s Woodstock set is him getting into it and headbanging.

 

RIP Larry.

 

Right now the main source is a Facebook post by one of Taylor's friends (Ray Rayman Axisa).

 

Delta Groove Music

 

Canned Heat

 

RIP Larry Taylor, thank you!

 

Legend. What a badass player. The guy was playing with Jerry Lee Lewis when he was still a teenager.

Rest in Power, Larry.

Long live Canned Heat. Damn, Fido has lost a lot of buddies in this band. I have so much respect for that man and what he's endured.

 

He was by far one of my favorite musicians and always hoped I'd get to meet him. He passed almost 50 years to the day of his amazing Woodstock performance.

 

Crazy how just last night before I went to bed I watched A Change is Gonna Come from Woodstock (he just may have invented the headbang) and was reading about Larry on Wiki (never knew he played for Tom Waits), and then I wake up this morning to find out he passed away. Was hoping someday Canned Heat would finally get inducted into the Hall of Fame and the Woodstock lineup of Larry, Harvey and Fito would play. I wonder if Larry is in there because of his contributions to other artists that have been inducted, he definitely belongs in there. Rest in peace Larry “The Mole” Taylor.

 

A brilliant bass player.

RIP Larry and thank you for sharing your talent.

 

Discography[edit]
with The Monkees[edit]

• The Monkees (1966)
• More of the Monkees (1967)
• Monkees Present (1969)
• Instant Replay (1969)
• Changes (1970)
• Listen to the Band (1991)
• Greatest Hits (1995)
• Missing Links, Vol. 3 (1996)
• Anthology (1998)
• Music Box (2001)

with Canned Heat[edit]

• Canned Heat (1967)
• Boogie with Canned Heat (1968)
• Living the Blues (1968)
• Hallelujah (1969)
• Future Blues (1970)
• Boogie Up the Country (1987)
• Reheated (1988)
• Internal Combustion (1994)
• Burnin' (1994)
• Canned Heat Blues Band (1996)
• Gamblin' Woman (1996)
• King Biscuit Flower Hour: Canned Heat in Concert (1996)
• Ties That Bind (1997)
• Boogie 2000 (1999)
• Turning Up the Heat (2000)
• Live at the Kaleidoscope 1969 (2000)
• Far Out (2001)
• Big Road Blues (2002)
• Friends in the Can (2003)
• Canned Heat '70 Concert Live in Europe (2004)
• Dimples (2005)
• Canned, Labeled & Shelved (2006)
• Instrumentals 1967-1996 (2006)
• Christmas Album (2007)
• Revolution Limited Edition Cd (2012)

with John Mayall[edit]

• Empty Rooms (1969)
• USA Union (1970)
• Back to the Roots (1971)
• Memories (1971)
• Jazz Blues Fusion (1972)
• Moving On (1973)
• Latest Edition (1974)
• New Year, New Band, New Company (1975)
• Notice to Appear (1975)
• Banquet in Blues (1976)
• Lots of People (1977)
• Archives to Eighties (1988)
• Rock the Blues Tonight (1999)

California 1969

with Harvey Mandel[edit]

• Games Guitars Play (1970)
• Baby Batter (1971)
• Electronic Progress (1971)
• Snake (1972)
• Mercury Years (1995)

with Tom Waits[edit]

• Heartattack and Vine (1980)
• Swordfishtrombones (1983)
• Rain Dogs (1985)
• Franks Wild Years (1987)
• Bone Machine (1992)
• Beautiful Maladies: The Island Years (1998)
• Mule Variations (1999) Gold Record Award
• "Hold On" (single) (2000)
• Alice (2002)
• Blood Money (2002)
• Real Gone (2004)
• Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards (2006) Gold Record Award
• Bad as Me (2011)

with others[edit]

• Test Patterns (Boyce & Hart, 1967)
• Slim's Got His Thing Goin' On' (Sunnyland Slim, 1969)
• Fiddler on the Rock (Don "Sugarcane" Harris, 1971)
• Lost Session (Albert King, 1971)
• Mudlark (Leo Kottke, 1971)
• The Devil's Harmonica (Shakey Jake Harris, 1972)
• Cup Full of Dreams (Don "Sugarcane" Harris, 1974)
• Summit Meeting (Free Creek, 1976)
• I'm a Southern Man (Louis Myers, 1978)
• Hollywood Fats Band (Mike „Hollywood Fats“ Mann, 1979)
• Rock This House (Mike „Hollywood Fats“ Mann, 1979)
• Anthology Previously Unreleased Material (The Grandmothers, 1980)
• Rock Therapy (Colin Winski, 1980)
• The Other Side of Town (Chuck E. Weiss, 1981)
• Hard Line (The Blasters, 1985)
• Harpburn (Rod Piazza, 1986)
• Best (Leo Kottke, 1987)
• Kristen Vigard (Kristen Vigard, 1988)
• Healer (John Lee Hooker, 1988)
• Keith Levene's Violent Opposition (Keith Levene, 1989)
• Mr. Lucky (John Lee Hooker, 1991)
• Got Love If You Want It (John Hammond, Jr., 1992)
• Trespass (Ry Cooder, 1992)
• In My Time (Charlie Musselwhite, 1992)
• Mother of an Anthology (The Grandmothers, 1993)
• That's Life (Kim Wilson, 1994)
• My New Orleans Soul (Ronnie Barron, 1994)
• Long Overdue (Junior Watson, 1994)
• Trouble No More (John Hammond, Jr., 1994)
• Martinis & Bikinis (Sam Phillips, 1994)
• Blues for Thought (Terry Evans, 1994)
• Closer to You (JJ Cale, 1994)
• Working Girl Blues (Phillip Walker, 1995)
• 88th Street Blues (Smokey Wilson, 1995)
• Adventures at Catfish Pond (Bob „Catfish“ Hodge, 1996)
• Rough News (Charlie Musselwhite, 1997)
• Lost in America (Lynwood Slim, 1997)
• Mr. Blake's Blues (Al Blake, 1997)
• My Blues (Kim Wilson, 1997)
• Signifyin' (Fred Kaplan, 1997)
• Back to Back (Lynwood Slim, 1998)
• Lookin for Trouble (Edward Taylor, 1998)
• Jump Children! Finis Tasby, 1998)
• New Depths (The Ventures, 1998)
• Soul Disguise (Cesar Rosas, 1999)
• Zero Zero Zero: The Best of Sam Phillips (Sam Phillips, 1999)
• Something Good for Your Head (Blackburn & Snow, 1999)
• I'm Going All the Way (Peggy Pruitt, 2000)
• I Can Tell (Junior Valentine, 2000)
• World Wide Wood (Lynwood Slim, 2000)
• Mo' Na'Kins, Please! (James Harman, 2000)
• Toughest Girl Alive (Candye Kane, 2000)
• West Coast House Party (Kid Ramos, 2000)
• There's a Song in There (Mark DuFresne, 2000)
• Fool's Paradise (Dale Hawkins, 2000)
• Wicked Grin (John Hammond, Jr., 2001)
• Smokin' Joint (Kim Wilson, 2001)
• "You Can Make It If You Try" (Gene Allison, 2002)
• Beggar's Oil (Kelly Joe Phelps, 2002)
• Harmonica Blues Orgy (Easy Baby, 2002)
• Magic Soul Elixer (Al Blake, 2002)
• Let It Rain (Tracy Chapman, 2002)
• Whole Lotta Love (Candye Kane, 2003)
• Heart Trouble (Wanda Jackson, 2003)
• Villanelle (Paul Reddick, 2004)
• Fernando Ortega (Fernando Ortega, 2004)
• Think About It (Alex Schultz, 2004)
• Soul Sanctuary (Hollywood Blue Flames, 2005)
• Southern Jumbo (Colin Linden, 2005)
• Time Brings About a Change... A Floyd Dixon Celebration (Floyd Dixon, 2006)
• Hell Under the Skullbones (Graham Lindsey, 2006)
• Spooked (Marley's Ghost, 2006)
• Road to Rio (Hollywood Blue Flames, 2006)
• Can't Quit the Blues (Buddy Guy, 2006)
• Shower Some Love (Layni Kooper, 2007)
• Luminous (Chris Murphy, 2007)
• Big Plans (Mannish Boys, 2007)
• Like a Fire (Solomon Burke, 2008)
• Bluelisted (JW-Jones, 2008)
• Midnight Memphis Sun (JW-Jones, 2010)
• Definitive Albert King on Stax (Albert King, 2011)
• New World Generation (New World Generation, 2011)

 

A working musician till the end. RIP.

 

Rest In Peace, Mole.